Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction

Product Description Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content, processes, and educational structures that seek to dismantle various forms of violence, as well as move towards cultures of peace, justice and human rights. Educating for Peace and Human Rights Education introduces students and educators to the challenges and possibilities of implementing peace and human rights education in diverse global sites. The book untangles the core concepts that define both fields, unpacking their histories and conceptual foundations, and presents models and key research findings to help consider their intersections, convergences, and divergences. Including an annotated bibliography, the book sets forth a comprehensive research agenda, allowing emerging and seasoned scholars the opportunity to situate their research in conversation with the global fields of peace and human rights education. Review “A practical and timely book which spotlights and legitimizes peace education and its critical contributions to academic and informal educational spaces. It contains thoughtful strategies and useful tools for teachers and anyone hoping and helping to build the beloved community. I am recommending it to my fellow peace educators, from the elementary to the postgraduate levels, so that together we can nourish into being a future of greater empathy, collaboration, and justice.” ―Maya Soetoro-Ng, Associate Specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace & Conflict Resolution, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, and Consultant at the Obama Foundation, USA“As rising authoritarianism, pandemics, and climate crises continue to (re)shape conflict and injustice around the world, Hantzopolous and Bajaj's compelling roadmap of and singular vision for the foundations, complexities, situated engagements, and generative intersections of peace education and human rights education are exactly the interventions that we need. A Must Read.” ―Kevin Kumashiro, former Dean of the School of Education, University of San Francisco, USA“This critical guide is much more than a map and handbook for peace and human rights educators-its truest audience is every teacher at any level who aspires to create a classroom based on the practice of freedom, and is in persistent pursuit of firm footing in this broken world.” ―William Ayers, formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA“Hantzopoulos and Bajaj brilliantly point to new directions in peace and human rights education that are critical, post-structural and decolonial – and interconnected through a shared focus on human dignity and transformative learning. Chapter 5 is a tour de force!” ―Felisa Tibbitts, Chair in Human Rights Education, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Higher Education About the Author Maria Hantzopoulos is Associate Professor and Chair of the Education Department at Vassar College, USA. She is co-editor of Peace Education (Bloomsbury, 2016) and author of Restoring Dignity in Public Schools: Human Rights Education in Action (2016). Monisha Bajaj is Professor of International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco, USA and Visiting Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. She is the author of Schooling for Social Change: The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India (Bloomsbury 2012).